filling every moment of every period with “to do” items, there was a lot of what educators on Twitter are now calling “White Space“

I stopped being in 100% control and started sharing my vision for teaching and learning with my students instead. The compliance didn’t necessarily go away, not at first, but the engagement definitely improved a lot. If I had August 2015 to do all over again I’d do the same things in a heart beat. No regrets!